Python 2.6.3 Release

Python 2.6.3

Python 2.6 is now in bugfix-only mode; no new features are being
added. Somewhere near 100 bugs have been fixed since the release of Python
2.6.2. The NEWS file lists every change in each alpha,
beta, and release candidate of Python 2.6.

The signatures for the source tarballs above were generated with
GnuPG using release manager
Barry Warsaw's
public key
which has a key id of A74B06BF.
The Windows installers were signed by Martin von Löwis'
public key
which has a key id of 7D9DC8D2.
The Mac disk image was signed by
Ronald Oussoren's public key which has a key id of E6DF025C.

Documentation

The binaries for AMD64 will also work on processors that implement the Intel 64 architecture (formerly EM64T), i.e. the architecture that Microsoft calls x64, and AMD called x86-64 before calling it AMD64. They will not work on Intel Itanium Processors (formerly IA-64).